Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

One might have thought it was already exciting enough for our Physics Project to be showing a path to a fundamental theory of physics and a fundamental description of how our physical universe works. Part of what this achieves is to generalize beyond traditional mathematics the kind of constructs that can appear in models.

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STEM Sport

JULY 4, 2023

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) curriculum is essential to a child’s education. Amusement Park: Investigating Physics in Motion Amusement parks provide an exciting opportunity for students to apply their knowledge of physics in a thrilling setting.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Scientific model — a conceptual or mathematical representation of a real-world phenomenon that allows scientists to study the phenomenon in more detail. Scientists can now turn their theories into mathematical models, which can then be expressed in software as simulations. Biology with Professor Michelle Peckham and Dr Alistair Curd.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 16, 2022

But, you might say, that’s nothing like an “intelligence” there; there’s just a “pure physical system” that operates through physical laws. And ultimately whatever is happening on Earth must be a physical process of some kind—operating according to the laws of physics. Everything is ultimately “just physics” after all.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Composite material — a substance that is made up of different components with different chemical and physical properties. In the area of complex engineering system designs, a systems and control engineering approach enables manufacturers to build a physically meaningful model of a system. “A Key findings and successes.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The team avoids the possible pitfalls of feedback by using mathematical models to inform the design of the compensators for each pool. The models are informed by the physics of channel flow and encode the dynamic relationships between upstream inflow, downstream outflows, supply point off-takes and downstream water levels.

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Vivify Stem

JANUARY 27, 2021

Perfect for in-person or distance learning, students are tasked with a mission from NASA to design and build a rover to transport rock samples on Mars! These STEM lessons and do-it-yourself projects covering topics such as biology, geology, physics, mathematics, engineering, coding, and language arts.

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Futurum

JULY 5, 2022

There are three main theories about how corrosion-protective paints work: The paint acts as a physical barrier between the metal and any oxygen or water in the environment. Mathematical models help us understand how corrosive and anti-corrosive substances behave,” says Stuart. “In Computing is vital throughout.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Indeed, so confident was he of his programming prowess that he became convinced that he should in effect be able to write a program for the universe—and make all of physics into a programming problem. It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus).

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Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It’s yet another surprising construct that’s arisen from our Physics Project. And—it should be said at the outset—we’re still only at the very beginning of nailing down those technical details and setting up the difficult mathematics and formalism they involve.) In many ways, the ruliad is a strange and profoundly abstract thing.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Building on an earlier interest in space and spacecraft , I’d gotten very interested in physics, and was trying to read everything I could about it. There were several shelves of physics books at the local bookstore. The other books I’d read had all basically said “physics works like this”. The lambda hyperon.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

For about three centuries it seemed as if mathematical equations were the ultimate way to describe the natural world—but in the past few decades , and particularly poignantly with our recent Physics Project , it’s become clear that simple programs are in general a more powerful approach.) How does all this relate to technology?

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Second Law of thermodynamics is considered one of the great general principles of physical science. Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. But our Physics Project has changed that picture. Why does the Second Law work?

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 13, 2022

My journey in science began in the early 1970s—and by the time I was 14 I’d already written three book-length “treatises” about physics (though these wouldn’t see the light of day for several more decades). Making its first appearance was a chapter on physics, though still definitely as a stub: &#10005. &#10005.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

And for example the concept of “temperature” is there because exponential distributions familiar from statistical physics happen to be being used, but there’s no “physical” connection—at least so far as we know.) In this particular case, we can use known laws of physics to work it out.

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Stephen Wolfram

JULY 17, 2023

And it now turns out to also be a question that rises to prominence in connection with the concept of the ruliad that’s emerged from our Wolfram Physics Project. So as a very coarse first experiment—reminiscent of many that are done in biology—let’s just “knock out” each successive module in turn, setting all its weights to zero.

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